Malkin: Liberal Bigotry on the Rise

The twins have yet to show that they are "brilliant". Let's not get carried away.

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Yes, there's definitely a difference between the two. While Malkin is reasoned, thought provoking and serious, Ann just verbally annihilates people in an outrageously entertaining way.

The following is lifted from a discussion of "Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast during WW II,"
by David D. Lowman

John Herzig is the husband of Aiko Herzig, an ethnic Japanese who worked for the Commission as a "researcher". Both are ardent pro-reparations activists. This blatant conflict of interest is just another example of the circus-like atmosphere of the Commission hearings as a whole.

Not to mention when John Herzig testified before the Commission, he was raked over the coals by House Judiciary Committee chair, Sam Hall, a Democrat from Texas. Herzig spent much of the testimony attempting to blast author Lowman's testimony. Herzig's summary was "no one who has testified thus far has mentioned MAGIC intelligence, therefore it must not be important". Obviously the commission had no knowledge of MAGIC after their "exhaustive research" so how could they ask questions regarding it? More to the point, why would they want to, as it would throw a wrench in their already decided upon conclusions of "hysterical racism". It's all in the book.

The statements before the commission never said MAGIC was not important, but rather MAGIC was never mentioned. The Commission should have known about MAGIC and asked questions about it. They didn't, another detriment to the credibility of the Commission.

"Testimony before the Commission" doesn't mean evidence doesn't exist. FBI Files regarding raids in February, 1942 prove evidence does exist. MAGIC intercepts prove evidence exists. In fact, IT'S IN LOWMAN'S BOOK! Why did the Commission ignore this?

As for names, go study Japanese-American Tomoya Kawakita's brutal treatment of POWs and a Mr. Harada on the island of Niihau, a Japanese-Hawaiin who aided a Japanese pilot immediately after Pearl Harbor and assisted in taking over the island for a week. Read "Japan's Longest Day" and learn about the Japanese-American translators who worked intelligence in the Imperial War Ministry in Ichigaya, Tokyo.

How about the 18,000 Japanese-Filipinos in the city of Davao? They had lived there as long as Japanese-Americans on the West Coast. On December 20, 1941 when the Japanese Imperial Army arrived, how many Japanese-Filipinos took up arms against them? Zero. In fact they went out of their way to prove their loyalty by acting as translators and scouts for the invading forces.

Given the evidence, including MAGIC intercepts stating as such, it is ludicrous to suggest that ethnic Japanese on the West Coast, indoctrinated with Japanese facism, didn't harbor the same feelings. No one is denying innocent Japanese-Americans suffered hardships because of the Japanese facists amongst them, but to say the evacuation was based on "hysterical racism" is not true and an outrage.

Regarding Japanese-Americans being the most decorated units, that's not true. The publisher of "MAGIC" and his congressman provided the evidence to the Smithsonian and the Smithsonian corrected the exibit. Read about it here http://www.athenapressinc.com/smithsonian/ .

Of ethnic Japanese-Americans of fighting age, roughly 4% volunteered to serve during WW2. Suffice to say it wasn't this 4% that concerened the government. To state that loyal Japanese-Americans who supported the war effort and fought bravely somehow reduces the threat of those facist Japanese-Americans who chose to support and assist Japan is absurd.

A far greater percentage of Japanese-Americans, over 14,000, chose to renounce their American citizenship and be expatriated to Japan. Over 5,000 such applications had been processed by 1945.

FDR himself kept control over the list of those authorized to know about Magic, and even J. Edgar Hoover was not on it. Nor was the vice-president.

Was there racism against Japanese in America? Soitenly. Were innocent people harmed? You bet. Was FDR's decision motivated by racism? Not even in Michael Moore's fever dreams.

"Liberals love to call conservatives racists, sexists, and homophobes,
but this is mere projection. They’re the ones who make assumptions
about people on the basis of race, skin color, ethnicity, sex, and sexuality.
A conservative black person isn’t really black, in their view. A conservative
woman isn’t really a woman. A conservative homosexual isn’t really homosexual.
This is persuasive definition of the worst sort. It’s an attempt to make reality fit liberal preconceptions. This isn’t politics. It’s mental illness." -- Keith Burgess-Jackson, HERE